An addictive easy way to shop for homes
We just rolled out another feature update today: we now show math and reading scores for all schools (shown on the nearby page for each house) along with links to super-detailed school information. Grade levels and student population are thrown in (small school proponents rejoice!). Additionally, we tell you each school’s district, so you’ll won’t get stuck buying a house...
Inman News, sort of the premier real estate news site, covers our launch and some of our features in an article today: The site also gives info on neighborhood market conditions such as number of homes currently on the market, average price, average square footage, and average time on the market, among other details. Each neighborhood includes links to popular...
I’d like to thank everyone who has given us such excellent feedback over the nearly two weeks since we launched. We thought you’d be pretty busy with Christmas and whatnot, so we saved the good post-launch news until life slowed down a little. So what’s new? In the time since we launched, we’ve been covered all over the web, including...
Well this is certainly not what we planned for our first post launch announcement. Saturday evening our database server crashed – hard. Our site is back up now and no data was lost. We’re working hard to make sure this will not happen again. Sorry for the inconvenience. On a brighter note we’ve been getting great feedback from you, our...
After getting great feedback from our beta testers, improving the site and squashing bugs, we’re opening our doors to let the public start searching for homes on our map-based real estate search site, ShackPrices.com. What is ShackPrices? ShackPrices.com is a snappy Google maps-based real estate search site that makes finding a home better by augmenting each real estate listing with...
Since our last post in June, you may have been asking yourself “has ShackPrices dropped off the face of the earth?” But you would be asking the wrong question. The right question is “what kind of awesome real estate search site has the ShackPrices team been working on?” Our totally unbiased answer to that question: pretty awesome. Currently a bunch...